About Me

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Trump speaks about American steel industry in June 2016 in Monessen, Pennsylvania: "American steel will be used for American infrastructure, American steel will fortify American bridges, American steel will rebuild our inner cities....Trade reform is quickest way to bring our jobs back...America changed its policy from promoting development in America, to promoting development in other nations"-6/28/16, Herald-Standard

In addition to the invited guests, another 40 or
50 supporters stood outside Alumisource where Trump was speaking, hoping
to catch a glimpse of the candidate as he arrived or left.

“I expected to be one of thousands here,” said
Cathy Ruscitto of Scenery Hill. “I didn’t know it was invitation only.
We’re going to stand outside if we can’t get in. We are anxious to hear
his message.”

California Borough council member Ryan Encapera, a
Republican, who was in the audience for the Trump event Tuesday, said
his great-uncle Nick Encapera was Kennedy’s driver when he visited
Monessen more than 50 years ago. Encapera is also a ninth grade civics
teacher and saw Tuesday as an great opportunity to share with his
students and to be a part of the regional history as his great uncle
was.

“We finally have somebody who is showing some
interest in the Mon Valley and I’m here to see what Mr. Trump will do
for Donora and the Mon Valley. The valley has been a abandoned stepchild
for years. It’s about time somebody showed they’re thinking of us,”
Pavelko said."

Hillary Clinton and her friends in global finance want to scare
America into thinking small - and they want to scare the American people
out of voting for a better future. 37, 38, 39
My campaign has the opposite message.

I want you to imagine how much better your life can be if we start believing in America again.

I want you to imagine how much better our future can be if we declare
independence from the elites who've led us to one financial and foreign
policy disaster after another. 40, 41, 42

Our friends in Britain recently votedto take back control of their economy, politics and borders.

I was on the right side of that issue - with the people - while
Hillary, as always, stood with the elites, and both she and president
Obama predicted that one wrong.

Now it's time for the American people to take back their future.

That's the choice we face. We can either give in to Hillary Clinton's campaign of fear, or we can choose to Believe In America.

George Washington said that "the promotion of domestic
manufactur[ing] will be among the first consequences to flow from an
energetic government.” 57

Alexander Hamilton spoke frequently of the "expediency of encouraging
manufactur[ing] in the United States." 58

The first Republican President,
Abraham Lincoln, warned that:

"The abandonment of the protective policy
by the American government…must produce want and ruin among our
people."59
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Our original Constitution did not even have an income tax. Instead,
it had tariffs -emphasizing taxation of foreign, not domestic,
production. 60
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Yet today, 240 years after the Revolution, we have turned things completely upside-down.

As a result, we have become more dependent on foreign countries than ever before. 64

Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s time to declare our economic independence once again. 65
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That means reversing two of the worst legacies of the Clinton years.
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America has lost nearly one-third of its manufacturing jobs since
1997 - even as the country has increased its population by 50 million
people. 66, 67
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At the center of this catastrophe are two trade deals pushed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. 68, 69, 70
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First, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. .......
Second, China's entry into the World Trade Organization.NAFTA was the worst trade deal in history,and China's entrance into
the World Trade Organization has enabled the greatest jobs theft in
history. 71

It was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA in 1993, and Hillary Clinton who supported it. 72, 73, 74
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It was also Bill Clinton who lobbied for China's disastrous entry
into the World Trade Organization, and Hillary Clinton who backed that
terrible agreement. 75, 76, 77, 78
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Then, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton stood by idly while
China cheated on its currency, added another trillion dollars to our
trade deficits,and stole hundreds of billions of dollars in our
intellectual property. 79, 80, 81, 82

The city of Pittsburgh, and the State of Pennsylvania, have lost
one-third of their manufacturing jobssince the Clintons put China into
the WTO. 83, 84

Fifty thousand factories across America have shut their doors in that time. 85, 86

Almost half of our entire manufacturing trade deficit in goods with the world is the result of trade with China. 87, 88

As Bernie Sanders said, Hillary Clinton "Voted for virtually every
trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of
jobs.” 95
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Trade reform, and the negotiation of great trade deals, is the quickest way to bring our jobs back...... To understand why trade reform creates jobs, we need to understand how all nations grow and prosper.
....... Massive trade deficits subtract directly from our Gross Domestic Product.
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From 1947 to 2001 - a span of over five decades - our inflation-adjusted gross domestic product grew at a rate of 3.5%. 96
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However, since 2002 - the year after we fully opened our markets to
Chinese imports - that GDP growth rate has been cut almost in half. 97, 98......
What does this mean for Americans? For every one percent of GDP
growth we fail to generate in any given year, we also fail to create
over one million jobs. 99
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America's "job creation deficit" due to slower growth since 2002 is
well over 20 million jobs - and that's just about the number of jobs our
country needs right now to put America back to work at decent wages. 100, 101
......... The Transpacific-Partnership is the greatest danger yet.The TPP would be the death blow for American manufacturing. 102
......... It would give up all of our economic leverage to an international
commission that would put the interests of foreign countries above our
own. 103

It
would make it easier for our trading competitors to ship cheap
subsidized goods into U.S. markets - while allowing foreign countries to
continue putting barriers in front of our exports. 106, 107
....... Mark my words, China will enter the TPP through the back door at a later date. 108, 109, 110
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That's not all. Mark my words, China
will be in this deal at a later date, if we don't stop it-they will come
in through the back door. 111
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The TPP would lower tariffs on foreign cars, while leaving in place
the foreign practices that keep American cars from being sold overseas.
The TPP even created a backdoor for China to supply car parts for
automobiles made in Mexico.

These commissions are great Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street funders who can spend vast amounts of money to influence the outcomes. 115
It should be no surprise then that Hillary Clinton, according to
Bloomberg, took a “leading part in drafting the Trans-Pacific
Partnership.” 116
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She praised or pushed the TPPon 45 separate occasions, and even called it the “gold standard”. 117
..........Hillary Clinton was totally for the TPP just a short while ago, but
when she saw my stance, which is totally against, she was shamed into
saying she would be against it too – but have no doubt, she will
immediately approve it if it is put before her, guaranteed. 118
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She will do this just as she has betrayed American workers for Wall Street throughout her career. 119
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Here’s how it would go: she would make a small token change, declare the pact fixed, and ram it through.
...........That’s why Hillary is now only saying she has problems with the TPP
“in its current form,” – ensuring that she can rush to embrace it again
at her earliest opportunity. 120

If the media doesn’t believe me, I have a challenge for you. Ask
Hillary Clinton if she is willing to withdraw from the TPP her first day
in office and unconditionally rule out its passage in any form.
....... There is no way to “fix” the TPP. We need bilateral trade deals. We
do not need to enter into another massive international agreementthat
ties us up and binds us down.
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A Trump Administration will change our failed trade policy - quickly
..........Here are 7 steps I would pursue right away to bring back our jobs.
........... One: I am going to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has not yet been ratified.
.............. Two: I'm going to appoint the toughest and smartest trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers.
......... Three: I'm going to direct the Secretary of Commerce to identify
every violation of trade agreements a foreign country is currently using
to harm our workers. I will then direct all appropriate agencies to use
every tool under American and international law to end these abuses.
........ Four: I'm going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately
renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our
workers. And I don't mean just a little bit better, I mean a lot better.
If they do not agree to a renegotiation, then I will submit notice
under Article 2205 of the NAFTA agreement that America intends to
withdraw from the deal.
............ Five: I am going to instruct my Treasury Secretary to label China a
currency manipulator.Any country that devalues their currency in order
to take advantage of the United States will be met with sharply.
.......... Six: I am going to instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring
trade cases against China, both in this country and at the WTO. China's
unfair subsidy behavior is prohibited by the terms of its entrance to
the WTO, and I intend to enforce those rules. 121, 122
.....Seven: If China does not stop its illegal activities, including its
theft of American trade secrets, I will use every lawful presidential
power to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs
consistent with Section 201 and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section
232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. 123, 124
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President Reagan deployed similar trade measures when motorcycle and
semiconductor imports threatened U.S. industry.
His tariff on Japanese
motorcycles was 45% and his tariff to shield America’s semiconductor
industry was 100%. 125, 126
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Hillary Clinton, and her campaign of fear, will try to spread the lie
that these actions will start a trade war. She has it completely
backwards.

A Trump Administration will end that war by getting a fair deal for the American people.

The era of economic surrender will finally be over.
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A new era of prosperity will finally begin.
America will be independent once more.

Under a Trump Presidency, the American worker will finally have a President who will protect them and fight for them.
We will stand up to trade cheating anywhere and everywhere it threatens an American job.
.......... We will make America the best place in the world to start a business, hire workers, and open a factory.......... This includes massive tax reform to lift the crushing burdens on American workers and businesses.

We will also get rid of wasteful rules and regulations which are destroying our job creation capacity.

Many people think that these regulations are an even greater
impediment than the fact that we are one of the highest taxed nations in
the world.

We are also going to fully capture America’s tremendous energy
capacity. This will create vast profits for our workers and begin
reducing our deficit. Hillary Clinton wants to shut down energy
production and shut down the mines and miners. I want to do the exact opposite. 127

A Trump Administration will also ensure that we start using American steel for American infrastructure.
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Just like the American steel from Pennsylvania that built the Empire State building. 128
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It will be American steel that will fortify American's crumbling bridges.
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It will be American steel that sends our skyscrapers soaring into the sky.
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It will be American steel that rebuilds our inner cities.
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It will be American hands that remake this country, and it will be
American energy - mined from American resources - that powers this
country.
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It will be American workers who are hired to do the job.
We are going to put American-produced steel back into the backbone of
our country. This alone will create massive numbers of jobs.
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On trade, on immigration, on foreign policy, we are going to put America First again.
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We are going to make America wealthy again.
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We are going to reject Hillary Clinton's politics of fear, futility, and incompetence.
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We are going to embrace the possibilities of change.
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It is time to believe in the future.
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It is time to believe in each other.
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It is time to Believe In America.
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This Is How We Are Going To Make America Great Again – For All Americans.